Looking ahead: This October, the Metropolitan Opera mounts John Adams’s critically acclaimed opera, The Death of Klinghoffer. In November and December, the English National Opera gives the world stage premiere of Adams’s The Gospel According to the Other Mary, directed by frequent collaborator Peter Sellars. In January, the St. Lawrence String Quartet gives the world premiere of a new Adams quartet at Stanford Live. In March, the New York Philharmonic, under the baton of Alan Gilbert, gives the world premiere of Scheherazade.2 for violin and orchestra, written for renowned violinist Leila Josefowicz.

"Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy." — John Adams